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WHat the hell does this have to do with the Second Amendment?
This is why I quit the NRA over 20 years ago; they changed from a group protecting private gun ownership to a group promoting right wing conspiracy crap.

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WHat the hell does this have to do with the Second Amendment?
This is why I quit the NRA over 20 years ago; they changed from a group protecting private gun ownership to a group promoting right wing conspiracy crap.

That woman has repeatedly demonstrated that she has no conscience. Color me not surprised (pun intended).

Besides the stupidity of National Rifle Association TV coming out against diversity, the message of the imagery is extremely confused. The Ku Klux Klan is completely against diversity (it's pretty much why they exist). So, maybe the point is that the NRA wishes that their friends in the KKK were riding shotgun on the train to take care of any diversity that might show up?

WHat the hell does this have to do with the Second Amendment?
This is why I quit the NRA over 20 years ago; they changed from a group protecting private gun ownership to a group promoting right wing conspiracy crap.

The NRA need to be on the receiving end of Thomas's new friend Gustav.

Besides the stupidity of National Rifle Association TV coming out against diversity, the message of the imagery is extremely confused. The Ku Klux Klan is completely against diversity (it's pretty much why they exist). So, maybe the point is that the NRA wishes that their friends in the KKK were riding shotgun on the train to take care of any diversity that might show up?

Exactlyt: What the hell does this crap have to do with protecting the rights of gunowners?

__________________Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

The only angle I have is that they're concerned that, if white people become a minority, the other races will treat the new, white minority in the same way other minorities have been treated in the past.

They're just in abject terror that payback is going to be a bitch, aren't they?

"This is horrible," Loesch said of the show's additions. "That's where it gets really strange to me. Am I to understand this entire time that Thomas and his trains were white? Because they all have gray faces. How do you bring ethnic diversity? I mean, they had to paint what I guess they thought was some sort of African pattern on the side of Nia's engine."

Obviously unaware of the series' British origins, so yeah, obviously all the original engines and other characters are British. That's grounds to quibble whether non-British engines should still have grey faces, but can have non-British accents/liveries, but that's about it.

Even so, I don't get how they get from the shock revelation that the original engines were envisaged as being "white" to putting them in KKK regalia - something not particularly common in the UK outside of being ridiculed in TV comedy.

Apparently some other foreign engines were introduced in 2016, but the NRA obviously didn't notice.

In other news. All white characters in The Simpsons are yellow, while non-white characters aren't. Shock! Horror!

The international body that supports countries that refuse to recognize women and homosexuals, is now telling educational cartoons that they should be more diverse?

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Why would you say that? Just because in 1967 they supported a California bill banning open carry that was intended to disarm the Black Panthers?

While I won't contest that the NRA is often strangely silent on the matter of non-white people enjoying their second amendment rights (see: Philando Castile), the NRA of 1967 wasn't nearly as hard line about right-to-carry as they are today. The old NRA was very much a sportsman and hunter's group and less concerned about non-recreational issues. 2nd amendment rights, as a political issue, didn't become a primary interest for the NRA until the 70's, culminating with the radical leadership change in the 1977 NRA elections.

WHat the hell does this have to do with the Second Amendment?
This is why I quit the NRA over 20 years ago; they changed from a group protecting private gun ownership to a group promoting right wing conspiracy crap.

Besides the stupidity of National Rifle Association TV coming out against diversity, the message of the imagery is extremely confused. The Ku Klux Klan is completely against diversity (it's pretty much why they exist). So, maybe the point is that the NRA wishes that their friends in the KKK were riding shotgun on the train to take care of any diversity that might show up?

It's likely just what they consider friendly programming for children.

I'd like to say I were totally joking, but given Loesh's output with the NRA...

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